debmake: a compromise?

[Vincent Renardias <vincent@waw.com>]

	After reading some comments on debstd, it seems like it's always the 
same things that make it a 'bad' tool:

1/ It doesn't say what it really does.

2/ Interface changes often.

Couldn't we make it accept the option '--no-act' that would only make it 
print the command it execute, that way, the maintainer debianising a 
package can select the 'good' commands and include them in debian/rules.

This way:

1/ We know what's happening during packages still the shell commands are 
executed from debian/rules.

2/ Once this is done, the package does not need debstd any more, so any 
changes to debstd don't matter.

	Seems reasonable?

		Cordialement,

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